A leading authority in the field, Muskat has popped up in a variety of major media. He has taught self-catering to a number of top executives and other notables. He has led thousands off the eaten path and hasn’t lost a customer yet. He has even been invited to appear on America’s Got Talent. Ardently moving the masses to sample rather than trample the toadstools, Muskat asks, “What do you have to lose? Whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you famous.”

Muskat really knows how to pick ’em. For close to two decades, he sold hundreds of pounds of wild foods a year to over seventy-five restaurants and hotels, including The Biltmore Estate, Lantern, and The Omni Grove Park Inn. He serves on the North Carolina Wild Mushroom Advisory Committee. On the anniversary of 9/11, he spoke at The U.S. Botanic Garden on Home-Land Security.

In 2007, Muskat co-founded The REAL Center, a school for rediscovering human nature. Wild foods, says Muskat, are a way of feeling at home in the world, continually provided for and never alone.

Finally, his mother would like you to know that he graduated from Princeton.

With humor, warm-heartedness, and panache, Woodsy Alan awakens nature’s wayward children to the beauty and bounty of their bioregion. Ask anyone who knows The Mushroom Man: when it comes to bringing out the fun in fungi, he’s the champignon.